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Who?

Deluded idiots like you deserve relegation.

What a pussy.

We’re aiming to stay up, that’s all that matters at this point in time.

Who would you have then?

Exactly. This place is full of delusional idiots.

We all knew we would be looking at bargain basement options given our position, I don’t get why some are so against Hughes - who exactly were they expecting? We will probably go down regardless of who we hire even if we improve, we can only attract managers who won’t mind having Relegation on their CV, that’s the situation we are in.

Whoever we get will divide opinion. Who gives a ****e what some reporter thinks, I rate journos opinions about as highly as ****ed bloke down pub. Having the ability to write stories doesn’t mean you have any special knowledge of football.

Have you been in a coma or something? Take a look at the league table, we’re not aiming for Europe.

Long term I would tend to agree but can't see him walking into the current sh!t storm and stop us getting relegated.

And they flogged their top scorer, which in their position was suicidal.

Hughes’ record at Stoke wasn’t too bad, as a short term fix he could be what we need. Not sure why some on here seem to think we are in a position to pick and choose our ideal manager, there is going to be a limit to who we can attract.

I’d be happy with Hughes. It’s a fire-fighting job until the end of the season, you need someone with experience and stature who knows the Prem IMO.

I would get Strachan in just for the hell of it. Give him another crack at the FA Cup.

Thank **** for that!

They do appear to have an over inflated opinion on how good the squad is though, it wouldn’t surprise me if they thought they could muddle through until the summer and still survive. Josh Sim’s amazingly arrogant “we’re too good to go down” interview the other day showed how deluded they are.

It’s hard to think of any logical reason why they would relegate the club on purpose, the drop in income is so great it makes no sense financially. We have one of the most expensive squads outside the top 6 so could be in big trouble. I suppose in theory if the players have relegation clauses and take a big wage cut Gao could trouser a decent amount of transfer cash and leave us with the youth team in the Championship, then syphen off the parachute money like the skates owner. Still not sure it adds up tho.

I think they probably have someone lined up for the summer and took a gamble on Pellegrino being able to do enough to keep this squad up. That would explain why they have only spent a fraction of the VVD money, they are saving it for the new guy.

We’ve left it too late to get anyone like Silva, only people interested will be on the managerial scrap heap. **** it, just get Strachan back, at least we will go down with a fight and have a day out at Wembley with ginger wigs.

I couldn’t stand Rupert Lowe but he showed more balls then any of the cowards running the club at the moment.

Nobody got rid of Cortese, he resigned. He jumped ship like all the other rats when Marcus' money dried up and Kat wanted her inheritance.

Think with Lowe it was different because he was just a Chief Exec of a PLC so he needed to keep the press onside whereas now the club is privately owned they can just tell the Echo to F-off at any point. I guess the Echo can't afford to annoy them too much.

No point planning long term when the effects of relegation are so severe, do whatever it takes to stay up and worry about the long term in the summer.

It's sad to say I tend to agree. It's weird, we're one game from Wembley and I'm no more optimistic about winning the cup than the start of the season. If we somehow manage to beat Wigan then it will just be an embarrassment at Wembley against Spurs or Chelsea if crusty the clown is still 'managing'.

Complacent, arrogant, disinterested - that applies to the board/owners as well as the players.